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the libel of information filed herein may be dismissed, and for any other iust and 
equitable relief as to this Court may seem meet and proper. 
(Signed) J. L. CARTHCUT. 
Sworn to and subscribed this 16th day of September, A. D. 1887. 
Before me, 
(Signed) H. E. HAYDON, 
Clerk, United States District Court. 
(By A. A. Meyer, Deputy Clerk.) 
[SEAL. | 
(Signed) W. CLARK, Proctor for Claimant. 
23 Endorsed: H. No. 93. 4. United States v. schooner ‘Sylvia Handy.” 
Answer. Filed the 19th September, 1887. H. E. Haydon, Clerk, by A. A. 
Meyer, Deputy. W. Clark, proctor for claimant. 
Return. 
SrrKa, District of Alaska, sect.: 
Be it remembered that, in obedience to the annexed monition, I have attached the 
within-described property and now hold the same in my possession, subject to the 
order of this honourable Court; and the owners and claimants of said property 
having in writing, filed in Court this day, waived notice of publication and posting 
of the libel and seizure, I therefore have notified all persons claiming said property 
to be and appear before this District Court on the 19th day of September, 1887, at 
3 o'clock P. M., then and there to make their claims and allegations in that behalf. 
(Signed) BARTON ATKINS, 
United States Marshal, District of Alaska. 
Sika, ALASKA, September 19, 1887. 
United States District Court for the District of Alaska. 
DISTRICT OF ALASKA, sect.: 
The President of the United States of America to the Marshal of the District of 
Alaska, greeting: 
Whereas a libel of information hath been filed in the District Court of the United 
States for the District of Alaska on the 15th day of September, in the year 1887, by 
Honourable M. D. Ball, United States Attorney for the district aforesaid, on behalf 
of the United States of America, against the schooner ‘‘Sylvia Handy,” her tackle, 
apparel, boats, cargo, and 1,679 fur-seal skins, furniture, as forfeited to the use of 
the United States for the reasons set forth in said libel of information, and praying 
.the usual process and monition of said Court in that behalf to be made, and that all 
persons interested in said schooner ‘‘Sylvia Handy,” her tackle, apparel, boats, 
cargo, and said sealskins and furniture, &c., may be cited in general and special to 
answer the premises, and, all proceedings being had, that the said schooner ‘‘Sylvia 
Handy,” her tackle, apparel, boats, cargo, said seal-skins and furniture, may, for 
the causes in the said libel of information mentioned, be condemned as forfeited to 
the use of the United States. 
You are therefore hereby commanded to attach the said schooner “Sylvia Handy,” 
her tackle, apparel, boats, cargo, and said sealskins and furniture, to detain the 
same in your custody until the further order of the Court respecting the same, and 
to give notice to all persons claiming the same or knowing or having anything to 
say why the same should not be condemned and sold pursuant to the prayer of the 
said libel of information that they be and appear before the said Court, to be held 
in and for the District of Alaska on the 19th day of September, 1887, at 3 o’cloek in 
the afternoon of the same day, if the same shall be a day of jurisdiction, otherwise 
on the next day of jurisdiction thereafter, then and there to interpose a claim for 
the same and to make their allegations in that behalf; and what you shall have 
done in the premises do you then and there make returns thereof, together with 
this writ. 
Witness, the Honourable La Fayette Dawson, Judge of said Court, and the seal 
thereof affixed at the city of Sitka, in the District of Alaska, this 15th day of Sep- 
tember, in the year of our Lord 1887, and of the independence of the United States 
the 112th. 
(Signed) H. E. Haypon, 
Clerk, United States District Court. 
[SEAL. ] (By A. A. MEYER, 
Deputy Clerk.) 
Endorsed: H. 5. No. 93. In the United States District Court for the District 
of Alaska. The United States v. schooner ‘‘ Sylvia Handy.” Monition. Returned 
and filed the 19th September, 1887. H. E. Haydon, Clerk, by A. A. Meyer, Deputy. 
